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Keith Frankish on the Hard Problem and the Illusion of Qualia

Philosophy Bites

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The Illusion of the Leaf

Keith Frankish: My experience of the leaf is probably best explained in terms of brain activity, not in terms of a particular feel of things. There's nothing in the story as I would tell it that depends upon particular properties of the biological brain tissue. He says he doesn't see any reason why similar processes couldn't be performed by non-biological tissue. "I'm sure other kinds of consciousness do exist, also in the universe"

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